A Dolphin’s Journal of Events

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Just so you know, we’re changing ad services. Thanks google, your adsense cannot sense right, therefore me following a recommendation off your site to add keywords, which then you turn around and slap me with this. Thanks.

So I’m back to developing web pages and stuff for a bit here.

Today’s for-fun project was: http://t.rscript.org/custom

Works in Opera 9.5, FF3/Gecko, IE7 [and IE6 I think], and Safari/WebKit/KHTML.

I ran into many fun problems, including this IE bug - as well as a Safari bug with handing JavaScript comments.

The color picker is from here: http://johndyer.name/post/2007/09/PhotoShop-like-JavaScript-Color-Picker.aspx

And so on. Glad that’s done, now to go look for a real job.

Paleo: I’m gonna make more creatures
Paleo: this thing is fun
Michael W. [micksam7]: heh ;p
Michael W. [micksam7]: I’ma… OH CRUD I FORGOT ABOUT THE COOKIES
Paleo: COOKIES
Michael W. [micksam7]: fhew
Michael W. [micksam7]: not burnt!
Michael W. [micksam7]: good thing I’ve been putting the oven on auto-off
Michael W. [micksam7]: *hands a cookie*

micksam7: I made cookies!
micksam7: *hands you one*
Babz: *eyes them* what kind?
micksam7: snickerdoodle
Babz: ?
micksam7: basicly a sugar cookie with brown sugar ;p
Babz: o
Babz: nummy

micksam7: I made cookies!
micksam7: *hands you one*
Chinook: Thanks! *pops it in his beak*
Chinook: Not bad

micksam7: *hands a cookie* I’ve been baking today. ;p
Ashley: *holds her paws up* no thank you, the thought is nice
micksam7: boo. fine fine

Michael W. [micksam7]: I made cookies! *hands you one* ;p
Black Leviathian: *CHOMP*
Michael W. [micksam7]: heey! You took the entire plate! ..including the plate.
Black Leviathian: HEEHEE

<micksam7> I MADE COOKIES
* micksam7 hands them out
<Dracovan> yaaaay
<spling> hey mick
<micksam7> TAKE MY COOKIES DARN IT
<Rba> i can has cookies?
<micksam7> yes you can has cookie rba
* micksam7 hands one over
* Rba eats it
* micksam7 stuffs a cookie in spling’s mouth
<Rba> mmm
<Rba> what kind of cookies did you make mick
<micksam7> For you rba? Poison. For everyone else they are snicker doodle
<Rba>
* Rba is now known as x_X

COOKIES FOR ALL! Thought I’d give them out to everyone I was chatting to at that moment. ;D

Yes indeed, I’m quite bored.

I mean, I optimized a starfield in flash today. [287 bytes!] So yes, I’m bored.

The ads on RuneScript Tracker have a click ratio of under 0.10%. We’re getting nearly nothing in return for the ads shown there. Out of 15,000 page impressions, we got 15 clicks. That’s terrible.

Talking to other people who run sites, they also are seeing this. Ads just don’t make much money anymore. We’re not even making enough to clear the $100 withdraw limit on google adsense by the end of the month [or even next month's withdraw date at this rate..]. It really sucks.

People just ignore ads, they filter them out mentally. The only way to get people to even look at ads now-a-days is fooling them to think it’s content. That sure isn’t easy without annoying a good number of people.

On the up side, our Project Wonderful ad got around 50 clicks. It’s too bad it only pays you per day the ad is shown. To help things out, I swapped out the 6 ad block on the bottom with one big ad, hopefully that’ll get a few more bidders for the spot.

After doing free and fun projects for the past 6+ years, I finally put my talents to use on a for-profit project.

The RuneScript Tracker!

Basicly a site to show experience gains for a player on the game RuneScape.

Includes a custom graphing script which I wrote several months ago. Can do gradients, anti-aliased lines and fonts and more.

And completely customizable, except I haven’t put up a page to help people with that yet.

Anyway, hopefully from the ads and all I can gain some fun money as well as pay for the server. I’d really like to not have to pick up a cruddy food service job in this small town. Of course me and spling have to decide how to split the money..

Of course, that brings up a whole new topic since there’s 4 “owners” of the RuneScript Project and numerious “staff”.. :\ I guess we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it..